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Researchers pinpoint sharp phase transition for ellipsoid fitting

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Researchers have established a sharp phase transition for fitting random vectors with an ellipsoid. This transition point is determined by the common fourth moment of the subgaussian coordinate distributions, indicating a universality phenomenon. For standard Gaussian data, this threshold is precisely 1/4, resolving a long-standing conjecture in the field. AI

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Researchers pinpoint sharp phase transition for ellipsoid fitting

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Frederic Koehler, Youngtak Sohn ·

    Universality and sharp thresholds for ellipsoid fitting

    arXiv:2608.27372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We establish a sharp phase transition for fitting random vectors by an ellipsoid. The random vectors have independent subgaussian coordinates with mean zero, variance one, and a common fourth moment, and the number of vectors is p…

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